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<\/p>\nRUSH: I have three sound bites here, ladies and gentlemen, that I want to play for you. Eric Cantor responding to the Wall Street Journal editorial that I mentioned today that I took issue with, the Wall Street Journal editorial which basically accuses the House Republicans of really mismanaging this payroll tax cut issue politically and they say if they\u2019re not careful they\u2019re gonna turn Obama into the king tax cutter. They want him to just cave and go along with Obama and be done with it. So Cantor was on with Chris Cillizza today on MSNBC. And he was asked about the Wall Street Journal editorial, he read a portion of it. “‘At this stage, Republicans would do best to cut their losses and find a way to extend the payroll holiday quickly. … The alternative is more chaotic retreat and the return of all-Democratic rule.\u2019 What do you say to that, Congressman Cantor?”<\/p>\n
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CANTOR: What I say to that, Chris, is, we\u2019re here in Washington, Speaker Boehner is here, we have members here in Washington ready to go to work, and the dispute boils down to this: Do we want to extend tax breaks and relief for the working people in this country for a year, or do you want to do it for 60 days and be embroiled in this kind of dispute ongoing? And I think certainly the logical position is to take the former. And President Obama is still in town, I hope he\u2019s not gonna go on vacation leaving the American people in the lurch, and that he can join with us in trying to tell Harry Reid to come back to town so we can assure the American people that their taxes are not gonna go up for a year.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So Cillizza then said, “I know in a perfect world you\u2019d like a year-long extension. Obviously, Congress doesn\u2019t exist in a perfect world. The options are, if we get to December 28, 29th, the options are a two-month extension or a failure to extend at all, which, as you and I both know, would raise taxes a thousand dollars or more. Are you and the Republican conference prepared to go that way?”<\/p>\n
CANTOR: We can solve all of this and make sure the American people get what they deserve, which is some certainty and a year-long resolution to say their taxes aren\u2019t gonna go up. You know, you think about why people are frustrated in Washington, it\u2019s because we\u2019re here, the president\u2019s down the street at the White House, he\u2019s seemingly unwilling to come and join us to say, “Let\u2019s get this thing done.” And I\u2019ve heard him say, “Well, the only thing that\u2019s doable is a 60-day extension.” How is that? We\u2019ve got time before the end of the year. Let\u2019s do our work like the American people are having to do.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And last night on the Bret Baier show, the Special Report on Fox, Bret Baier, the All-Star Panel, A. B. Stoddard from The Hill, she\u2019s associate editor there, and Baier said, “Look, it\u2019s a negotiation. So far we haven\u2019t seen both sides come together. We haven\u2019t seen senators say that they will do it.”<\/p>\n
STODDARD: The House Republicans are digging in actually over principle, much as they have been accused of digging in over politics. There\u2019s some politics involved, but they\u2019re very angry with the Senate. The Senate has not passed a budget in a very long time. The Senate has been fond of temporary patches. It makes the Congress look more dysfunctional, and the House Republicans are rebelling against a temporary two-month patch to the payroll tax cut extension. That being said, this is not going to be understood by most Americans. This is a very high-risk gamble for the House Republicans. It\u2019s bad politics. And people are tuned out for Christmas. They want their thousand dollars. They hate the Congress.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. So they\u2019re acting on principle, and that\u2019s a loser. They\u2019re acting on principle, but that\u2019s a loser. ‘Cause the American people hate Congress and they want their thousand dollars. And they\u2019re too stupid to understand it, too. They\u2019re too stupid to understand that it\u2019s 20 bucks a week. Too stupid to understand. They hate Congress, they want their thousand bucks. It hasn\u2019t led to job creation, it hasn\u2019t led to anything. A two-month deal is not gonna get anybody a thousand dollars. I\u2019m sorry to yell, folks, I know you don\u2019t like it, I just sometimes react so incredulously. A thousand dollars, the American people want their thousand dollars? The American people want their house on the beach! At what point does somebody stand up and say, “We don\u2019t have the money here,” and that\u2019s not what this is anyway, and there is no thousand dollars on the table in a two-month extension. We\u2019re not talking a thousand dollars here. <\/p>\n
Tyler in Indianapolis. Great to have you on the program, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Happy holidays, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir. Thank you for taking my call. I just have a quick question. Why can\u2019t we attack Obama personally? Why can\u2019t we be critical of him?<\/p>\n
RUSH: We can, but the Republicans think that the independents don\u2019t like that and will feel sorry for him and get mad at whoever criticizes him and will vote Democrat.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. So by holding back and doing that, what are the benefits of that for us?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, the benefit, the thinking is that the people, the independents are gonna see that we\u2019re nice people and will stay with us. We\u2019re nice people, and they will then vote for us. No, we\u2019re not the meanies that the Democrats and the media say we are. So what we\u2019ll really do, we will please the media and we please the media — ha-ha-ha-ha — we please the media and the independents will vote for us because we are nice people. <\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Might not be satisfying, but you asked. I\u2019m telling you the truth.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>CALLER: All right. Well, so with people, you know, holding back and saying, you know, they\u2019re gonna vote for us and things like that, how will it change, you know, to defeat Obama? I mean to repeal Obamacare and things like that?<\/p>\n